Is there some theological reason why code snippets are set in such a microscopic typeface?

Whether I view this site on my netbook, a notebook, or a giant auxiliary display, while the text seems to scale proportionately, somehow, the code is always displayed in a typeface that is difficult to read.

Does such a rendering imply some advanced knowledge possessed only by The Perl Monks? Or, does the ability to read very small text somehow enhance one's coding ability?

Tally ho,

Jo3

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We make them so small to ensure only up-and-coming young programmers (and young experts) can read them.

But if that's not satisfactory (and if you can prove you are amongst the "young" -- say between 14 and 104), then you may find help in the fact that the display settings are --- woot, hold onto your hat -- Adjustable!

Go to Display Settings, scroll down to the "Code Listings" section, and check the box for "Large Code Font". Alternately search out some of the threads about user-written css styling.

Well, hmm, indeed. I thought it was so that we'd apply one
of the crudest available forms of motivation on Anonymous Transients
to get them to create an account (and therefore to post under that
account). ;-)

I didn't write that - you didn't see it. It was all in your
head ;-).

There has been a lot of discussion about such matters over the
years, I'm sure. I've been thinking a lot about it again since I
read the thread started by frozenwithjoy, actually.
Since then I've been going through the markup served by PerlMonks
with a fine-tooth comb (and inventing other tools, where the comb
would not suffice). One easily forgotten thing can be shown here.
Aside from any preferences set by logged-in users (and remember to
try viewing under perlmonks.net or perlmonks.com or whatever is
not your logged-in norm, once in a while) …aside
from such variables, there is the initial bare HTML served up like
this:

That font element inside the tt is what gets
changed when we do like ww wrote: in the Display Settings
node, choose "Large Code Font". I think I ought to say
that I'm not arguing to change PerlMonks so that the emitted markup
becomes greatly different from what is demonstrated above. Hmm, yes,
the font tag is a very deprecated antique from ancient days
of yor. Yes, the impact (visually) for new visitors is probably a
bit odd. However, I am not proposing that it be changed. A
lot of code that parses PerlMonks markup is out there, and
we don't know what someone is relying on (PerlMonks has been around
for a very long time). Anyway, it can be worked-around.

The best thing, by far, is to change it in Display
Settings. The CSS methods are wonderful, absorbing,
time-consuming puzzles to create, and I'm totally into them. However
these are measures that only apply to what's seen when not
viewing a perlmonks URL under /bare/?... (no user CSS is
served up with the "Bare Monks" Special). There are many, many ways
of using PerlMonks, I've come to understand, although I'll probably
never do some of them. Anyhow, if using Bare Monks is at all
important to you, or for some reason you need to view the site in a
non-logged-in mode (maybe to show it to the B*ss without all the
private messages from monkess “HotGuapita24” shouting from the
Nodelet table?) then perhaps this minimal CSS will help:

Users of various up to date Web browsers will either know how to
put that CSS statement into use for (Firefox|Chrome|Opera) or they
won't. Without being exhaustive: using Firefox / Mozilla CSS
extentions, you'd cover the perlmonks URL gamut by wrapping the CSS
statement above like so:

Perlmonks is a truly magnificent canvas for "personal creativity"
in terms of shaping the presentational styling in practically
endless ways. I've finally come to really appreciate that about it,
after many many years of knowledge of the site.

Even if you don't have a login you can fairly easily adjust it: just change the monospace font's size in your browser. For example, in SeaMonkey go to Edit -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts, and change the monospace font's size up from the default 13px.